Negotiating the Epistemologic Implications of Oenophilia

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Above: Earlier today, Sofia Pepe sent me this photo, taken mid-afternoon local time in Torano Nuovo, Abruzzo. “There was snowfall” last week, she told me by phone, “but it melted quickly.” Note the leaves on the vines.

“Luckily, we were spared any major damage,” said Sofia Pepe of the Emidio Pepe winery in Abruzzo when she and I spoke by phone this morning.

“We’re about 100 km north of Pescara,” she explained, “and we’re only 10 km from the sea, so the temperatures are warmer here than they are inland.”

“My father [who is one of the patriarchs of Abruzzo viticulture] is planning a trip down to Pescara to help them rebuild their vineyards,” said Sofia.

“It’s not easy to do and only the older grape growers know how to do it. But it can be done: when this happened to us in the 1990s, we had a smaller property then but my father was able to rebuild the vineyards in about 10 days.”

I’ll continue to follow and post on the story as it develops… Thanks for reading…